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Drink Up! Coffee May Fight World's Most Common Cancer

If you like coffee, you're going to love this news. Your favorite cup of joe may fight this common cancer...

Coffee break! If you're looking for an excuse to head to the coffee shop this morning, check out this encouraging news: New research presented at an American Association for Cancer Research conference notes that a cup of coffee a day may reduce your risk of developing the world's most common cancer: basal cell carcinoma.

Amazingly, women in the study who drank more than three cups of coffee per day had a 20 percent reduced risk of the disease as opposed to people who drank little coffee.